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Game 66, 2016

The Dodgers’ Kenta Maeda (5-4, 2.70 ERA) goes against the D-Backs’ Archie Bradley (2-2, 5.22 ERA) in a battle of righthanders. Maeda has won two of his last three starts and made two quality starts in a row. Bradley has lost two straight but has a 3.79 ERA since his callup from Reno May 29.

Goldschmidt continues to be a terror against the Dodgers: he’s now hit 23 home runs against them in his career. That’s bad enough, but he’s only 28 and in just his sixth year in the big leagues. He may hit a lot more against them before he’s through.

In personnel news:

Today, #Dodgers announced the signing of OF Will Venable to a 1-year contract and optioned C/IF Austin Barnes to Triple-A Oklahoma City.

Maeda bruised, x-rays negative, Roberts expects him to make next start. Here’s some coincidence for you:

Maeda is the third Dodgers Japanese pitcher to be driven from a game
being hit by a line drive. In 2002, Kaz Ishii was hit by a Brian Hunter
line drive at Dodger Stadium and suffered a skull fracture. In 2009, in
the same Chase Field, Hiroki Kuroda was hit on the side of the head by a
line drive and suffered neck issues that bothered him the rest of his
career.

With his two home runs last night, Joc got his ytd OPS above .8 again at .809. That puts him at 67th out of 173 of the those qualified ytd and 9th ytd for center fielders,and 13th for the last 7 games, and #1 for center fielders for last 7 games.

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